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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2022

ADAR2 increases in exercised heart and protects against myocardial infarction and doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity.

Xiaoting Wu, Lijun Wang, Kai Wang, Jin Li, Rui Chen, Xiaodong Wu, Gehui Ni, Chang Liu, Saumya Das, Joost P G Sluijter and 2 more

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Xiaoting WuDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
Lijun WangShanghai Engineering Research Center of Organ Repair, School of Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China; Cardiac Regeneration and Ageing Lab, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Kai WangDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
Jin LiShanghai Engineering Research Center of Organ Repair, School of Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Rui ChenShanghai Engineering Research Center of Organ Repair, School of Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Xiaodong WuDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
Gehui NiDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
Chang LiuShanghai Engineering Research Center of Organ Repair, School of Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Saumya DasCardiovascular Division of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Joost P G SluijterDepartment of Cardiology, Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, University Utrecht, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands; UMC Utrecht Regenerative Medicine Center, Circulatory Health Laboratory, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Xinli LiDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China. Electronic address: xinli3267_nj@hotmail.com.
Junjie XiaoShanghai Engineering Research Center of Organ Repair, School of Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China; Cardiac Regeneration and Ageing Lab, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. Electronic address: junjiexiao@shu.edu.cn.
Shanghai University · CNNanjing Medical University · CNJiangsu Province Hospital · CNHarvard University · USUtrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exercise training benefits the heart. The knowledge of post-transcription regulation, especially RNA editing, in hearts remain rare. ADAR2 is an enzyme that edits adenosine to inosine nucleotides in double-stranded RNA, and RNA editing is associated with many human diseases. We found that ADAR2 was upregulated in hearts during exercise training. AAV9-mediated cardiac-specific ADAR2 overexpression attenuated acute myocardial infarction (AMI), MI remodeling, and doxorubicin (DOX)-induced cardiotoxicity. In vitro, overexpression of ADAR2 inhibited DOX-induced cardiomyocyte (CM) apoptosis. but it could also induce neonatal rat CM proliferation. Mechanistically, ADAR2 could regulate the abundance of mature miR-34a in CMs. Regulations of miR-34a or its target genes (Sirt1, Cyclin D1, and Bcl2) could affect the pro-proliferation and anti-apoptosis effects of ADAR2 on CMs. These data demonstrated that exercise-induced ADAR2 protects the heart from MI and DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. Our work suggests that ADAR2 overexpression or a post-transcriptional associated RNA editing via ADAR2 may be a promising therapeutic strategy for heart diseases.

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MicroRNAsMyocardial InfarctionAnimalsApoptosisCardiotoxicityDoxorubicinMyocytes, CardiacRatsDoxorubicinMicroRNAsADAR2doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicityexercisemyocardial infarctionRNA editing

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PMID34274534
PMCPMC8753375
OpenAlexW3179553680

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